square/PonyDebugger
PonyDebugger
PonyDebugger is a suite of iOS-specific debugging tools that provides web-based interfaces for network inspection, data browsing, log streaming, and view hierarchy analysis. It enables the remote examination of a running iOS application through a browser.
The project integrates with the Chrome DevTools protocol to bring network traffic inspection and proxying capabilities to native iOS applications. It also provides a read-only web interface for browsing managed objects and local data entities stored on the device.
Additional capabilities include a remote logging console for streaming text and object dumps without using breakpoints and a view hierarchy inspector for examining and modifying the visual element tree in real time. These functions are supported by a gateway server that establishes communication between the mobile device and the developer's browser.
Features
- Chrome DevTools Protocols - Provides a debugger for native iOS applications by implementing the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
- iOS Traffic Inspections - Acts as a gateway server to capture and display HTTP requests from iOS applications for analysis.
- Local Data Browsers - Provides a read-only browser interface for querying and navigating structured data stored locally on the device.
- Remote Diagnostic Consoles - Provides a remote diagnostic console for streaming text and object dumps from a running iOS app.
- iOS Data Persistence Debugging - Enables browsing and examining managed objects and local data entities within a native iOS application through a remote interface.
- iOS Network Debugging - Analyzes and inspects native iOS application network traffic using Chrome Developer Tools.
- iOS Remote Data Browsers - Provides a read-only web interface for browsing managed objects and local data entities stored on an iOS device.
- iOS UI Inspection - Allows viewing and modifying the visual element tree of a native iOS app in real time via a web browser.
- Remote iOS Logging - Sends text and object dumps from an iOS device to a remote console to examine state without breakpoints.
- Intercepting Proxies - Routes application traffic through an intercepting proxy to enable network analysis via external developer tools.
- Network Traffic Inspectors - Proxies application network requests to browser-based developer tools for raw request and response analysis.
- View Hierarchy Inspectors - Provides a remote browser interface for examining and modifying the visual element tree of a running iOS app.
- Remote Query Interfaces - Exposes internal database entities to a remote browser by mapping native object contexts to a queryable interface.
- View Hierarchy Debuggers - Implements a browser-based interface to inspect and modify the visual element tree in real time.
- Hierarchy Serializers - Transforms the native visual element tree into a serializable format for remote inspection and manipulation.
- Asynchronous Log Streaming - Provides asynchronous streaming of text and object dumps from the device to a remote console.
- Remote Logging Utilities - Offers a remote console that receives text and object dumps to examine application properties without pausing execution.
- Data Management - Network and data stack debugging tool.
- Debugging and Inspection - Remote network and data debugging using browser tools.
- Debugging Tools - Remote network and data debugging via Chrome.
- Developer Utilities - Remote debugging tool for iOS apps using Chrome Developer Tools.
- iOS and macOS Utilities - Remote network and data debugging using Chrome DevTools.
- Platform Adapters - Remote network and data debugging for iOS apps.
- Testing Frameworks - Remote debugging for network and data via Chrome.
